Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century — Part 2: Ovarian-based treatments of “hysteria”

John Jarrell, Frank W. Stahnisch
In: Journal of the History of the Neurosciences · 2021 · vol. 30(4) , pp. 375–389 · doi:10.1080/0964704x.2021.1902065 · PMID:34139136 · W3170961023
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This paper examines how physicians Robert Battey and Octave Terrillon interpreted ovarian pain and "hysteria" differently, leading to variations in the use of oophorectomies for treating women's pain in the late 19th century.

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) of the ovaries in relation to the "fits" of hystero-epileptic patients, while validating women's pain experiences during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Differences in the interpretation of disease concepts between Robert Battey (1828-1895) and Octave Terrillon (1844-1895) thereby permit an understanding of variations in the use of the removal of women's ovaries for pain.

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